state voter files? no. do you have any doubt that officials of the russian government were fully aware of these activities? no doubt. are you confident that no votes cast in the 2016 presidential election were altered? i m confident. when i left as director i had seen no indication of that whatsoever. director comey, did the president at any time ask you to stop the f.b.i. investigation into russian involvement in the 2016 u.s. elections? not to my understanding, no. did any individual working for this administration, including the justice department, ask you to stop the russian investigation? no. director, when the president requested that you, and i quote, let flynn go, general
about how the government believes the gru, russia s military intelligence wing, worked to hack into election voting systems, including sending phishing e-mails to local officials in an attempt to steal their log-in credentials. including documents with viruss hidden inside that if opened could help give access to files on the a kpusercomputers. the homeland security was grilled on what to do to keep from breach. i don t think they were going there to try to just hang out. there is a lot of drama. senator mark warner, top democrat on the intelligence committee saying the hacking attempts were broader and targeted more states than previously revealed. telling usa today the attempted breaches didn t stop on election day. imagine the disruption if thousands of people showed up to vote and their names were no longer on voter files? what would we do? i share your concern. i don t disagree with anything
and they were trying to get into these voter files. now, in any other environment this would be a major, major news story. but this part of the russian effort has gotten very little attention. well, it didn t until it got leaked. we all condemn the leaks, but without the leak it would have gotten no attention from us because we wouldn t have known about it. so, i mean, there are so many things that are, quote, classified. i get this was classified so it shouldn t have been leaked. but a lot of information is withheld from us. we don t know how bad it is. that is exactly right. that s why we have to keep working until we get all of this out into the public dough nan. we re not going to stop working until we do. you re going to see this information come out. we re going to question why some of this is classified. why would russia trying to get into the databases of states necessarily be a classified situation because clearly you don t have any sources and methods you re protecting th
they had at getting into certain voter registration systems in certain jurisdictions, they could have caused a lot of trouble on election day by interfering with those systems, deleting people out of voter files, people showing up and not being able to get a ballot. so i think that is a thing that our government from the federal level down on to the local level should be concerned about for next time. but i don t see anything in here that anything went really wrong in this election. malcolm, go ahead. i think somewhere around august 1 to the day of the election, just about every day i was on this channel, warning that the place where this election could be tamp errered was at the volley tally level. it appears that the gru, russian military intelligence was well aware of that. what they were doing is using their trusted system of infiltrating malware into these systems by going through elected officials through spear first quarter.
voting machines. so i don t think people should look at this report and be suspicious that the vote tallies were tampered with in this election. that said, the apparent success they had at getting into certain voter registration systems in certain jurisdictions, they could have caused a lot of trouble on election day by interfering with those systems, deleting people out of voter files, people showing up and not being able to get a ballot. so i think that is a thing that our government from the federal level down on to the local level should be concerned about for next time. but i don t see anything in here that anything went really wrong in this election. malcolm, go ahead. i think somewhere around august 1 to the day of the election, just about every day i was on this channel, warning that the place where this election could be tampered with was at the volley tally level. it appears that the gru, russian military intelligence was well aware of that. what they were doing is using